{"id":320,"date":"2010-08-26T19:58:24","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T01:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/?p=320"},"modified":"2024-07-14T05:43:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T10:43:08","slug":"adderall-may-have-unhinged-lindsay-lohan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/26\/adderall-may-have-unhinged-lindsay-lohan\/","title":{"rendered":"Adderall May Have Unhinged Lindsay Lohan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Fox News <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/about\/\">TMZ<\/a> says  that Lindsay Lohan&#8217;s Adderall dependence &#8212; the result of a medical misdiagnosis  &#8212; may have been the reason she went off the rails.<\/div>\n<div>Read the full articles here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/2010\/08\/20\/adderall-unhinged-lindsay-lohan\/\">http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/2010\/08\/20\/adderall-unhinged-lindsay-lohan\/<\/a><\/div>\n<div>and\u00c2\u00a0here:<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2010\/08\/19\/lindsay-lohan-adderall-ambien-misdiagnosis-smoking-drinking-texting-ucla\/\">http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2010\/08\/19\/lindsay-lohan-adderall-ambien-misdiagnosis-smoking-drinking-texting-ucla\/<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Adderall is a psychostimulant of amphetamine and  dextroamphetamine that has been linked to violent behavior. The FDA requires  stimulants such as Ritalin and Adderall to carry a boxed warning that states the  drug is &#8220;a federally controlled substance because it can be abused or lead to  dependence.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>In 2004, the FDA ordered that the packaging for Adderall  include a warning about sudden cardiovascular deaths, especially in children  with underlying heart disease.<\/div>\n<div>In 2005, Partnership for a Drug-Free America released the  findings of\u00c2\u00a0a survey which determined that 10% (2.3 million) of teens had abused  Ritalin and Adderall.<\/div>\n<div>The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at  Columbia University issued a report in July 2005 called &#8220;Under the Counter: The  Diversion and Abuse of Controlled Prescription Drugs in the U.S.&#8221; stating that  15 million Americans were getting high on prescription drugs, painkillers and  psychiatric drugs such as Xanax and the stimulants Ritalin and Adderall. They  were abusing these drugs more than cocaine, heroin and methamphetamines  combined. Teens who abused prescription drugs were 12 times likelier to use  heroin, 14 times likelier to use Ecstasy and 21 times likelier to use cocaine,  compared to teens that do not abuse such drugs.<\/div>\n<div>For more information on the side effects of psychiatric  drugs, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/sideeffects.shtml\">http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/sideeffects.shtml<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lindsay Lohan&#8217;s Adderall dependence may have been the reason she went off the rails. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/26\/adderall-may-have-unhinged-lindsay-lohan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-muddy-river-newsletter","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NMpC-5a","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}